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Nutritious food. >> thanks for discussing this vital topic. >> we talked about government workers who may not be getting paid and some are working and no salary. what are the impacts for people who are on the lower rung of the income and need this kind of government assistance? are they cut off or is it near to them being cut off? how critical? >> great question and it's important to preface by saying government employees are not mutually exclusive. the lowest paid federal employees make $25,000 a year and could miss a paycheck on january 11th, but in terms of the nutrition assistance programs...

Wic program for low and pregnant women and breast feeding women and women and infants under the age of 5. it calls for a 17.9% decrease nor the department of health and human services. president trump's budget proposal will include a new benefit for america's working parents. paid family leave. his daughter, ivanka trump, is said to be the driving force behind this proposal. the president will seek funds for the creation of a program to grandmothers and fathers, six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. the president is expected to cost $25 billion over ten years. neil? >...

>> is it a good idea to pick a fight with mr. potato? >> i don't think this is about politics, i disagree with the panel a little bit. i think this is all the food industry. they are not going to back down and get their products out of the schools, it's too big a thing for them. and we cover this in "fed up." pizza as a vegetable. there's a company called schwan from minneapolis that has 70% of all the pizza markets in schools. there was no way they were going to not let pizza be part of the school lunch program, and they won. >> speaking of which, let me take a moment to read the national pot...

The more than 944,000 texas women, infants and children who participate in the wic program in july alone? how about the fact that railroad over 4 million texans in the food stamp program each month or the fact of 5.7 million texans without health insurance it's the worst in the country. but who needs health care, right? speaking of health care, cruz made quite a claim this morning to the texas medical association. >> my top priority in office is focused on one thing. and that is economic growth. restoring economic growth because jobs and economic growth, economic growth is ant sedent to solvin...

There are kids who depend on formula through the wic program, and we need a way out of this. not to mention -- why isn't the democratic party not doing anything to acknowledge the reality of where we are and trying to figure out a way to get out of it together? it doesn't matter how we got here to a degree. we're here. now what? >> jake, i think you probably would guess, and it would be true, there are conversations under way to what we will discuss, you know, what we will negotiate over. what things will be on the table. what we have said is open the government, pay our bills and let's have t...